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January, 1930 A MUSIC JOURNAL THE BULLETIN THE OFFICIAL ORGAN THE BRITISH of MUSIC SOCIETY (Founded in 1918 by Dr. A. Eaglefield Hull). Incorporated 1919. Patron: THE RT. HON. THE EARL OF BALFOUR, P.C., F.R.S., O.M. President: THE LORD HOWARD DE WALDEN. SIR HUGH ALLEN, K.C.V.O., M.A., D.Mus. PROFESSOR GRANVILLE BANTOCK, M.A. SIR THOMAS BEECHAM, Bart. Vice-Presidents: MAJOR-GENERAL SIR W. S. BRANCKER, K.C.B., A.F.C. ALBERT COATES, Esq. W. W. COBBETT, Esq., F.R.C.M. SIR FREDERICK COWEN, Mus.Doc. SIR H. WALFORD DAVIES, Mus.Doc., LL.D. MRS. VERNON DEAN, M.A. FREDERICK DELIUS, Esq., C.H. MRS. JAMES DYER. SIR EDWARD ELGAR, O.M. REV. E. H. FELLOWES, Mus.Doc. SIR DAN GODFREY, Hon.R.A.M., L.R.A.M. SIR HENRY HADOW, C.B.E., M.A., Hon.D.Mus., SIR HAMILTON HARTY. SIR WILLIAM MCCORMICK, M.A., LL.D. J. B. MCEWEN, Esq., D.Mus., F.R.A.M. MRS. W. LEE MATHEWS. SIR S. ERNEST PALMER, Bart, F.R.C.M. SIR LANDON RONALD. GRAHAM PEEL, Esq. DAME ETHEL SMYTH, D.B.E., Mus.Doc. SIR ARTHUR SOMERVELL, Mus.Doc. THE RT. REV. THE BISHOP OF OXFORD, F.R.S.L. D.D., G.B.E., Hon.D.Mrs. PROFESSOR DONALD TOVEY, B.A., F.R.S.E. LADY MAUDE WARRENDER. SIR HENRY WOOD. Full Membership: One Guinea per annum. Committee of Management: Chairman: SIR. HUGH ALLEN, K.C.V.O., M.A., D.Mus. CECIL H. BATESON, Esq. ADRIAN C. BOULT, Esq., M.A. GERALD M. COOPER, Esq. EDWARD J. DENT, Esq., M.A. Vice-Chairman: W. W. A. ELKIN, Esq. MISS KATHARINE EGGAR. MAJOR J. T. BAVIN. DR. S. H. NICHOLSON, W. RUSHWORTH, Esq. COL. J. C. SOMERVILLE, C.M.G., C.B E. LT.-COL. R. H. TATTON. FRANCIS TOYE, Esq. Hon. Treasurer: CoL. J. C. SOMERVILLE, C.M.G., C.B.E. Secretary: W. H. KERRIDGE, Esq., M.A., Mus.Bac., A.R.C.M. Hon. Representative of London Centres: MRS. R. LUCAS. Hon. Representative of Northern Centres: W. R. FELL, Esq. Offices: 117-23 GREAT PORTLAND STREET, LONDON, W.1. Telephone: Langham 3021. T OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY The British Music Society exists to promote the organisation and development of music in the British Isles and the British Empire, to build up a body of musical opinion capable of making itself felt whenever and wherever the interests of music and music-lovers are at stake, and to spread the knowledge of British music of all periods at home and abroad. It encourages its members, wherever they may be situated, to work towards this end by cultivating every kind of musical activity, and not least by making music among themselves, believing that thus the love and knowledge of music are chiefly stimulated and strengthened. The Society is not intended to supplant or compete with any existing organisation; it desires rather to co-ordinate scattered musical activities for the prevention of waste and overlapping. It enrols not only practising musicians, professional and amateur, but all who are conscious of the importance of music as an element in national culture. 85

A MUSIC JOURNAL EDITORIAL WE are indebted to Dr. Saleeby for his cour- tesy in allowing us to publish in our present issue his valuable and exceedingly interesting article on Music and Medicine. When lecturing on this subject at the first Anglo-American Music Conference at Lausanne, on August 3rd, 1929, Dr. Saleeby followed very much the argument of his Broadcast Talk four years previously. As a result of his appeal, and thanks to readers of the Daily News, all the beds in the voluntary January, 1930 So far Centres have been spared the actual dis- turbance and dislocation that signalised the abrupt conclusion to a concert of Schönberg's music in 1921 in Vienna. According to reports the concert ended in a wild struggle, during which blows were exchanged. It even found its echo in the Viennese Law Courts, where from the witness-box a well-known nerve specialist, in giving evidence, declared that the effect of the music was "for a certain section of the public so nerve-racking, and therefore so harmful for the nervous system, that many who were present hospitals in London, amounting to four figures, already showed obvious signs of severe attacks are now provided with wireless head-phones. The Daily News is now organising a fund among its readers to supply with head-phones all of neurosis." the blind in this country, who number about To give some guidance to the enquiring mind 15,000. The relation of Music to Health is a subject of absorbing interest for many to whom music as a purely aesthetic phenomenon makes little appeal. Moreover musicians themselves must surely be glad to know that what for them may be primarily "a thing of beauty" can alleviate the sufferings of those in pain and so be for the sufferers "a joy for ever." * REFERENCE was made last month to Liver- pool's solution of the problem connected with the concerts of contemporary music. Another Centre is now faced with the same problem-of so organising concerts and programmes that it has been suggested that Mr. Edwin Evans should be invited to give a lecture on modern music to the C.M.C., this lecture to count as a special event in the season's programme. We have pleasure in announcing that Mr. Evans has con- sented to give this lecture some time in February or March, and we feel sure that members of the C.M.C. will gladly avail themselves of the privi- lege. It is hoped that this lecture will inaugurate a welcome innovation; an annual lecture giving a resumé of the year's musical productivity should do much to enhance the attractiveness of the C.M.C. and to enlarge the sympathies of its members. * members shall leave the concert-hall nourished IT is always encouraging when a new B.M.S. with food for reflection, and not ill at ease as a result of the "cerebral indigestion," to which a surfeit of music aggressively modern may often give rise. * THE annual festival of the International Society of Contemporary Music, while of absorbing interest, is not to be regarded as a form of holi- day, even for a musician. At the Venice Festival some years ago it was remarked that the élite audience issued forth from the nightly concerts in the Teatro Fenice in a state of excitement, bordering on exasperation and even nervous prostration. In certain cases Italian wine and a midnight gondola trip on the Lagoon were obviously necessary to induce sleep in the excep- tionally sensitive. If a Festival of Contem- porary Music is capable of generating an atmosphere comparable to that in which Mr. Snowden conducted recent negotiations at the Hague, one cannot withhold sympathy from the musical people among us, who, unlike visitors to a Festival, have to be up at work betimes in the morning, and fail to derive adequate refresh- ment and relaxation from the music of the night before. 86 Centre is formed. Members will therefore read with interest the account, given under Branch News, of the recent formation of a Centre at Plumstead. This new Centre owes its crcation to the enthusiasm and unsparing energy of Mr. R. W. Duncan, a member of the Black- heath Centre, who has already succeeded in forming a Committee and elaborating a pro- gramme for the season. W.H.K. THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC THE 1930 Festival of the I.S.C.M. will be held at Liège in September, when orchestral, choral, and chamber music concerts will be given. The Reading Committee of the Contemporary Music Centre will meet at the end of January to select works to be submitted to the Inter- national Jury, which will meet in March. Composers who wish to submit works to the British Section are asked to send them in by January 15th, 1930. The International Jury for 1930 consists of M.M. Butting, Ibert, Malipiero, Pisk, and Schulhoff.

January, 1930 ON MUSIC AS MEDICINE WHERE shall we spend our holidays? That is the topic for most of us. Topos means a place as in the word topography. Which is the place that will give us most joy? But for hundreds of thousands of invalids there is no place but bed and for only too many the one topic that matters now is this:-When will there be a vacant bed for me in hospital? A MUSIC JOURNAL By Dr. CALEB WILLIAMS SALEEBY, F.R.S.E., Chairman of the Sunlight League of the matter in the most effective possible way. For many weeks the wireless was a priceless boon to me even more valuable than the small artificial sun which played on my leg, knee and hand, and that is saying a good deal. It served me by day and by night. Always the best of sleepers hitherto, not dreaming once in a twelve- dwmonth, I feared the nights after days of inaction indoors, but the wireless kept me company until eleven, and even midnight on Saturdays. I do not know how I could have endured that experi- ence without such a boon. If that was the service to a patient who expected to be perfectly well in due course, what of those who are bed- ridden for months or years, perhaps without hope of recovery? And what of those whose physical condition will sway the balance either towards life or death? There can be but one answer. Again what of the anodyne action of music and the rest that the æther carries to us if we have the means to receive it? So now let us talk about the folk for whom there is no place but bed, and let us see how we ought to provide for them there, and how we may hope to get them out of bed, consequently, to make room for others in need. Time was when to provide a bed at all, where the sick could die in peace, was the best that the age could imagine. Then came medical science, born again in the Renaissance of learning, and doctors gave medicine to their patients. But we have not yet regained the great vision of the Greek Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, who saw his patients not merely as diseased bodies, but as human beings, and so sought to treat them with everything good for mind, and soul and body. To that noble ideal we are now returning. Something we may call the mania for wanting to swallow medicine is said to be a feature that distinguishes mankind from the lower animals. (Another is that man, unlike the lower animals, eats when he is not hungry). By medicine we mean something obviously not food or drink, and yet to be swallowed, as only food or drink should be. The doctor who prescribes a drug without taste or odour must actually add something, obviously "medicinal" to nose and palate, in order to convince the patient that he is being effectively treated. This is literally poisonous nonsense. The word medicine has become degraded. We say that a man who is paying a penalty must "take his medicine "meaning something nasty. The word means healing (medicare-to heal) which means to make whole and to make holy. Nineteen years ago I wrote, in a book on health, a chapter on the uses of music, partly based upon my recollections of the evident stimu- lation and refreshment which the patients in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh used to derive from the ward concerts. My point of view was that of the doctor and singer. Lying on one's back after being knocked down by a motor car, one sees the matter from another point of view, and I wish to make my own experience useful for others who must lie so. Already I had drawn attention to the value of "wireless" for invalids, little guessing that I was about to learn the facts *A broadcast from the London station, in July, 1925, to the British Isles. On inquiry I learned that there exists, entirely unadvertised, a Children's Wireless Hospital Fund, which provides this most exquisite and blessed medicine for sick children. I had to worm out the facts, for the British Broadcasting Company feel some reluctance in asking for sub- scriptions to something which they alone can supply. Seven children's hospitals in or near London have been supplied, beginning with the most famous in the Empire, the Sick Children's Hospital in Great Ormond Street. The service in all consists of loud speakers for convalescent wards. It should be possible to show statistically that such provision effects even monetary saving by shortening convalescence, and allows beds to be emptied and filled more frequently. 87 Every cot and bed in every hospital and nurs- ing home should be equipped with a pair of head- phones, for the use of the individual patient as and when required. The divine arts of music and musical speech are never more divine than when they soothe and cheer and heal the broken, the weary, the frightened and the sleepless. Wire- less can bring them to the neediest ears. Let those of us whom the wireless delights and serves at so little cost think of long, miserable hours, endured by hundreds of thousands of invalids, mostly poor, to whom we owe some practical charity by way of thanks for our own lives and retained or recovered health. All good new things are old. There is nothing new under the sun. And yet even poor Jeremiah, in his Lamentations, said that the Lord's mercies are new every morning. To-morrow morning's sunlight will be new, but the sun has been shin- ing a long time. Last year, on two occasions, I reminded you that the use of sunlight to cure

A MUSIC JOURNAL disease is as old as Hippocrates, who practised four hundred years before Christ. The use of music to cure disease is older than that. It is at least as old as the lovely story of young David and the heavy-hearted king, Saul, possessed with an evil spirit of remorse and fear. "David took an harp, and played with his hand; so Saul was refreshed and was well and the evil spirit departed from him." Much good music, giving life and joy, has mankind owed to the Jews from that date until our own. As for the Greeks, the other great race of antiquity, we all know the story of Orpheus. No doubt the ancients, both Jews and Greeks, especially thought of music as having a magical power against evil spirits. In one of the loveliest of all operas-it should be lovely, for its theme is the power of music, even against Death-there is a scene where Orpheus descends to the lower world to find his lost love, Eurydice. But first he must pass the portals guarded by hostile, bitter, cruel beings, of devilish temper. What an oppor- tunity for the composer. And old Gluck took it. Into the mouth and the harp of Orpheus he put music so divinely beautiful that we are not sur- prised when the devilish spirits are humanised and made kindly and angelic so that they gave welcome and aid to the Singer in his search for his beloved. We change the words, nowadays; instead of talking about evil spirits or devils we say obsessions or complexes, but these really are evil spirits inhabiting our souls or obstructing our way to those we love; and they need exorcising by the divinely healing art of David and Orpheus now as ever. Fear is a devil, and many of the sick are possessed of it and cannot sleep for it: the hag sits upon their widely open eyes. Music has natural magic against her, many's the time. How then, for we must be practical, can we use it to turn devilish and deadly feelings into those good angels, peace of mind and courage and hope? Loud speakers have their place; but the individual treatment of the individual case- "Treat the patient, not the disease "is the key to all good work. Only too often a ward concert in the old days had to be abandoned because, though twenty-three patients would have bene- fited, the twenty-fourth would have been injured. The point for each bed is the sound principle of treatment, and we must hope that all doctors and sisters henceforth may be judicious music lovers and consult with their patients on the use of this lovely medicine-alone worthy to rank with the dayspring from on high. In the use of light we are learning how to use different notes and even different chords, for different cases: one may need the high notes we call ultra-violet, or even the highest of all, called X-rays; another may need the low notes towards January, 1930 the bass, called red light, or even the dark heat rays, still lower in pitch. Just so in music. A patient with very sensitive hearing may not want to hear a military band with a lot of brass, but may be helped to sleep by the quiet high notes of Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes." But his a violin Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, neighbour, in the next bed, who was a soldier in the Great War, may rejoice to hear some martial music once again. And, of course, we need differ- brow; but I hope we shall especially cater for that ent kinds of music for the low brow and the high excellent person, the broad brow, who likes the best of everything, from Bach to ragtime. As everybody knows, a great newspaper is now running a campaign for wireless in the speaking, which has a musical quality, or good wards, for music as medicine; including good would not be the word to describe it. We want the best of both to help to relieve and cure the sick, to put them to sleep and soothe their pain with- out the reaction and the long price that most of Evidently here is an obvious way in which we our drugs out of bottles exact for their services. can serve the hispitals, shorten convalescence, which is, in effect, adding to the number of beds 88 holiday to those who cannot go where they will and bring the very substance and essence of a these days to find it for themselves. Long ago there was plenty of noise but no music on earth. I have heard Vesuvius rumble: a great noise, but music is better. There is still too much noise, especially around the walls of our urban hospitals. But surely the very soul of progress is to move from noise to music: from discord to concord: from quarrelling to har- mony from fear to peace: from shouting to singing; until, some day, mankind may hear the music of the spheres and then proceed to enhance and enrich it for himself. It is at least a step to that goal so to equip the suffering that in the moment they put on the headphones they move from noise to music. In Here's to the Aether, and the Aether Organ with its fifty octaves of waves for us. September, after studying at first hand some of the new work on the Continent, I hope to talk to you yet again about the one octave of æther waves which we call light. But this evening, here's to the long waves, many octaves below light waves and heat waves, which now can carry the balm of poetry and music over the oceans or the deserts, if necessary, through all material obstacles, to reach the needy, thirsty, heart and ear of the weary, the suffering, the anxious and the sleep- less. Medicine indeed, like the sunlight itself, with healing in its wings:- In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.

January, 1930 A MUSIC JOURNAL Blackheath BRANCH NEWS A very interesting violin and piano recital was given by Orrea Pernel and Kathleen Cooper on December 3rd. The programme included Mozart's Sonata in Eb and Delius's First Sonata, a suite for violin, and piano, by de Falla-Kochanski and a group of piano pieces by Debussy, Ibert and Paul Paray., Bournemouth This, the tenth season of the British Music Society here in Bournemouth, opened in October." The Society has benefited greatly throughout by the original officers remaining at the helm, and they have skilfully piloted the ship through all weathers. Undoubtedly this has been a great asset to the Society, who have thus had a con- tinuous musical policy. Mr. Hamilton Law, the hon. secretary, and Mr. Herbert Nash, the hon. treasurer, have been able to profit by years of experience in the work of arranging effective and instructive programmes, and the result of their work can be seen by the present strength of the Centre. Dr. Saleeby, who lectured on Music and Health, is possibly better known as a Medical Lecturer than a Musical one, but his talk was full of interest. The connection of Music with Disease and its cure is as old as David and Saul and is a subject of real practical application. Dr. Salceby made an impassioned appeal for funds to provide wireless to all hospitals and ear- phones for each patient. Madame Anne Diebell gave a song recital in November, her songs being chosen from Hugo Wolf, Respighi, Grieg, and Negro Spirituals. She is as yet but little known in this country and the Society was fortunate in obtaining her first appearance in the South. A Violin and Pianoforte Recital, by Bernard Shore and Angus Morrison brought the year's activities to an end. They chose for their pro- gramme three Sonatas:-The Brahms F minor; the Arnold Bax; and the Elgar (an arrangement of the Violin Sonata). It was good to see British composers so much to the fore. East Grinstead H.A.D. The East Grinstead Centre held their monthly meeting on November 20th, when an extremely interesting pianoforte recital was given by Miss Flora Shaw, of the Royal College of Music, and a pupil of Mr. T. P. Fielden. She is a pianist of marked ability. Not only has she an excellent and very adequate technique, but she has also the necessary temperament which enabled her to interpret equally successfully such things as Chopin's Bb minor Sonata with the Funeral March; Bach's Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue; Schumann's Papillons; and Debussy's Puck's Dance. Miss Shaw is still a student at the Royal College and there seems every prospect of her having a very successful musical career before her. Liverpool On November 13th Dr. W. G. Whittaker gave a delightful lecture to members entitled North Country Folk Music. His talk was illustrated by quaint North Country music on the Northumbrian Pipes, played by Mr. Tom Clough, and examples of North Country Folk Songs were given by Mr. Ernest Potts. The evening was much appreciated by members. Miss Ethel Bartlett and Mr. Rae Robertson gave a recital for two pianofortes on November 28th. They provided a delightful programme, which included works of Couperin, J. S. Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Bax, Glière and Rachmaninoff. On Saturday evening, November 30th, the String Orchestra of the Centre provided a con- cert at the Beccheroft Settlement, Birkenhead. The recital was a great success and was much appreciated. Marylebone All the evenings were held, as usual, at Mrs. Dalliba John's Studio, in Langford Place. At the beginning of October Christopher Stone, so familiar on account of his frequent broadcasting, gave not only one of the most novel evenings the Centre has ever had, but one of the most interesting and amusing. Major Stone gave no stereotyped lecture, but spoke to his audience as only a very practised speaker, with an infinite knowledge of his subject, can do. His wit pro- voked ready response, and his very beautiful records provided his audience with such music as is, strangely enough, not usually associated with gramophones. The attendance was lament- ably bad, but the appreciation accorded augured well for a broader-minded attitude towards the vexed question of mechanical music. In November, Anna Tibell sang Lieder as beautifully as ever, after an absence from London, which has been far too prolonged for her many English admirers. Lyell Barbour played Mozart and a group of modern piano music. The year ended with a highly successful con- cert by The Pirani Trio. Schubert, Delius and Tschaikowski was the varied fare; it is an inter- esting fact that the Delius Double Concerto won the greatest applause of the evening. The concert attracted a large audience. And now for 1930. Muswell Hill The Canadian Trio, on account of some point of law, were unable to give their promised con- cert on November 14th. Fortunately, Norina 89

A MUSIC JOURNAL Semina ('Cellist), and Kenneth Ellis (Vocalist), who were engaged for January 14th, 1930, kindly changed their date to two months earlier, and so saved the situation. Miss Semina, with Mr. Reginald Paul, gave a very good rendering of three sonatas, the well known Brahms in F major, Bach in G minor, and one by Bréval. Mr. Ellis also chose a fine programme which included songs by Purcell (Tempest), and Handel, Easthope Martin, Armstrong Gibbs, etc. He sang them excellently and was very sympathetically accompanied by Mr. Paul. Newcastle-on-Tyne Despite another big musical attraction the same evening (November 30th), the attendance at the Centre's meeting was quite good, as it certainly deserved to be on account of the merit of the performance. The English Ensemble, in the persons of Marjorie Hayward, Rebecca Clarke, May Mukle, and Kathleen Long, demonstrated conclusively that feminine team work can be as good as masculine, and the players individually challenged comparison with the best of the other sex. Fauré's Piano Quartet in C minor was played with a living warmth and technical sparkle which brought the work's appeal out to the full. Very pleasing, too, was the performance of Dohnányi's Serenade for string trio, and the Piano Quartet in A minor of Herbert Howells, which completed the small but choice programme. The audience realised the dual merits of works and performances in full measure and signified the same in the usual manner. Hendon and Golders Green The programme of November 19th, was vocal, and given by Miss Jean Duncan, and Miss Ita Cope it consisted of a number of charming duets, and several solos, accompanied throughout by Mr. Percival Garratt, in his usual faultless style. The three Schumann duets, and two of Chaussen were best suited to their voices, which blended well, and their solos included works by Parry, Strauss, and Armstrong Gibbs. The ladies were newcomers to this Centre, and members will look forward to the pleasure of hearing them again. On December 10th, Miss Monique Poole's string quartet gave a delightful programme beginning with Haydn's work entitled The Lark and next Schubert's, in D minor, Death and the Maiden. After refreshments they continued with three short works of McEwen and lastly an interesting item entitled Seven Maidens, by Daly-Atkinson. The other members of the quartet were Margaret Scripps (2nd Violin), Alice Grassie (Viola), Dorothy Tidmarsh ('Cello). They had a very good reception and gave an January, 1930 extremely enjoyable programme; this Centre enjoys the satisfaction of having Miss Poole among its talented members, and it was a happy thought that induced her to give a short outline of the works they were performing, and especially at this stormy time to know the story of the Seven Maidens, who are now seven rocks on the coast at St. Ives, so transformed for their non-observance of their Sunday duties; the music is the work of a resident clergyman. Mr. Richard Walthew thanked the artists, and Miss Kingsford announced the next event fixed for January 7th a whist drive, at the Refectory, Golders Green. The new treasurer, Mr. Hart, was also formally introduced to the members at this meeting. Plymouth L.A.C. A very successful Competition Festival took place in November under the auspices of the B.M.S. Valuable advice was given by the adjudicators, Mr. Geoffrey Shaw, Mr. Julius Harrison, Miss Edith Knocker, and Miss Gwenneth Thurburn. Our thanks are due to Mr. George Sawdy for the efficient and smooth way in which the arrangements were carried out. On December 4th, the Rev. P. Franklin Chambers gave a most interesting lecture on The Significance of Scriabin, which was much enjoyed. Belfast 90 W.P.W. A recital of music for two pianos, given by Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson, and about the largest attendance of members in the history of the Centre, combined to make the last meeting a very notable event. This was the second recital which they had given at the Centre, and the per- fection of their ensemble and their finely individual style was once more a delight to hear. Their programme was again a fine one, includ- ing as it did Brahms' Variations on Haydn's St. Antoni Chorale, a Sonata in Bb by Bach, Schu- mann's Andante and Variations, in addition to some small pieces, among others, Debussy's Deux Epigraphes Antiques. The Schumann was a first performance here and proved a very attractive work. But the outstanding things were the Bach and the Brahms. They were both superbly played, and were, indeed, among the most memorable per- formances in Belfast in recent years. Isle of Man Music Society On December 11th, Eleanor Toye gave a lecture-recital on Ancient and Modern Settings of Shakespearean Lyrics. Mrs. Oxford was at the piano. Miss Toye gave Oh Mistress Mine, in the settings of Tedesco and Quilter as well as in the traditional. Four songs to the setting of Arne were very much appreciated. In fact the audience, in almost every case, appeared to prefet

January, 1930. the earlier to the more modern settings. Schu- bert's Hark, Hark, the Lark, received great applause; but Miss Toye's greatest effort was her rendering of a part of the last act of Othello (Verdi). This she gave exquisitely and fully deserved the great ovation she received. The programme given by Miss Toye was altogether quite exceptional in excellence. The next meeting of the Society was announced to be on January 7th, when the secretary of the British Music Society will give a lecture-recital on The Romantic Period in Musical History. Formation of a Branch at Plumstead B.S. On Saturday, November 30th, a concert was held for the purpose of inaugurating a Plumstead Branch. The programme consisted of the Elgar Sonata in E minor for violin and piano, the Bach Chaconne and the César Franck Sonata. Mr. Julius Ungerson played the violin parts of these works, and the piano parts were played by Miss Hazel Perman and Mr. Harold Whibley. Miss Dorothy Peacock played Mendelssohn's Rondo Capriccioso. Mr. Kerridge spoke for a quarter of an hour on the organisation and objects of the B.M.S. This concert was advertised locally and 200 circulars were distributed among persons known to be interested in music. The audience numbered over 100 and constituted the most attentive and genuinely interested gathering that the writer has seen. The programme was excellently played and was enthusiastically received. The performers were congratulated upon having arranged and rehearsed so fine a programme at very short notice, and upon generously giving their services for the advance- ment of music. Admission to the concert was free, and a collection was made. It is gratifying to know that between twenty and thirty persons have already promised to become members of this Branch. A first General Meeting has been held and a committee has been elected. Violin and piano sonatas, piano quartets and four piano quintets are being prepared for performances early in the new year. Palmers Green and District R.W.D. The visit of our secretary, Mr. W. H. Kerridge, M.A., Mus.Bac., F.R.C.O., was the distinctive feature of the meeting on December 3rd. Mr. Kerridge, who was welcomed with great pleasure by the members, gave a highly interesting and equally provocative talk on Character and Tem- perament as revealed in Music, which led to an animated discussion only cut short by considera- tion of time. All members look forward to the B.M.S. secretary's next visit in the near future, when further illumination on the various and 91 A MUSIC JOURNAL varying aspects of music may be given by a master. This meeting concluded the Branch's activities for 1929. The first meeting of the New Year takes place on January 15th, at the Congrega- tional Church, Palmers Green, when an Organ Recital will be given by Mr. Edgar A. Dibben with choral items by the Church Choir. This is a return to the Branch's early practice of includ- ing a recital of Church Music in its Seasonal programme. Glendale School Branch On Wednesday, December 11th, the Palmers Green Orchestral Society, under the leadership of Mr. Kenneth Sullens, president of the Palmers Green Branch, gave a delightful Orchestral Concert to the young people of the School Branch. The programme included the Overture to Marriage of Figaro, the first movement of the Symphony in B minor (Schubert) and the first movement of the Grieg Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, the solo part being performed by Mr. Clement Bishop, F.R.C.O., L.R.A.M., the Musical Director of the School Branch. In addition the School Choir gave charming renderings of Granville Bantock's Song of the Children of Paladore, and of Rutland Boughton's setting of the carol-The Holly and the Ivy- which had pleased a very large audience on the Glendale School's Speech Day in the previous week. Alnwick on At the second concert of the season, November 22nd, a song recital was given by Mr. Trefor Jones. He has an extremely fine vocal technique and was warmly received by a large audience. His first group of songs was drawn from the Elizabethan song writers. Fine Knacks for ladies, and When Laura Smiles, were sung in a happy, straight forward, manner, and Faire, Sweet, Cruell, with poignant feeling. Next came some present-day English and Italian songs, Bredon Hill (Butterworth), being dramatically treated. The Italian songs had the vocal facility usually associated with that country, those of Donaudy being written "in the antique style." In a further selection of contemporary English songs, To Myra (York Bowen), and Quilter's The jealous Lover, were full of impassioned fervour. Contrast was afforded by A Cradle Song (Mary Sheldon), demanding great restraint, and by the gentle The Lake Isle of Innisfree, and by the effective song, Love's Secret (Bantock). A group of songs by Brahms and Strauss com- pleted the programme. Both artist and audience were greatly indebted to Mr. W. Dunwell for his admirable accompaniments. (Continued on page 93)

Trinity College of Music (INSTITUTED 1872) President: THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY, K.P., P.C., G.C.V.O. Principali E. STANLEY ROPER, M.A., Mus. B. Controller of Examinations: EDWARD D'EVRY, F.T.C.L., F.R.C.O. TEACHING DEPARTMENT Michaelmas, Lent and Trinity Terms (twelve weeks each) begin respectively in September, January, and April. The College provides complete and systematic instruction and training in every recognised musical subject and Dramatic and Operatic Elocution, during the day and evening. Students are received for single subjects, or for the course arranged to suit special individual needs, or for the scheme of Lecture-Classes for the Training of Music Teachers. All modern systems of Technique (whether for the Pianoforte, Violin, or other instrument) and of Vocal Training are taught by qualified professors. Preparation for all Public Examinations in the Theory and Practice of Music, including University Degree Examinations. The College Orchestra, the Choir, the Light Opera Class, and the various Ensemble Classes, Lectures on Musical History, etc., are open also to those not attending the College for other subjects. In the JUNIOR SCHOOL students are admitted up to 16 years of age at reduced fees. and the Art of Teaching is also given by Correspondence. Tuition in the Rudiments of the Theory of Music, Harmony, Counterpoint, Form, Instrumentation, Composition There are between Forty and Fifty Scholarships tenable at the College, and open to all British subjects up to certain age-limits, and the Bambridge Pianoforte Scholarship, value too per annum; also Eighteen Scholarships which provide complete preparation for the Degree of Bachelor of Music of London and Durham Universities. Particulars of the Teaching Department, with list of Professora, Fees, Scholarships, regulations, etc., and the Syllabuses of the Higher and Local Examinations, on application. MANDEVILLE PLACE, MANCHESTER SQUARE, LONDON, W.1 C. N. H. RODWELL, Secretary THE LONDON SCHOOL OF DALCROZE EURHYTHMICS 23 Store Street, W.C.1 Visiting Principal: EMILE JAQUES-DALCROZE (Geneva). Director: PERCY B. INGHAM, B.A. Director of Musical Studies: ERNEST READ, F.R.A.M. Mistress of Method ETHEL DRIVER, L.R.A.M., DALCROZE DIPLOMA. MONSIEUR JAQUES-DALCROZE will give a LECTURE-DEMONSTRATION in THE SCALA THEATRE, CHARLOTTE STREET, LONDON, W.1, SATURDAY, MARCH 29th, 2-30 p.m. THE SUMMER SCHOOL, under the personal direction of M. JAQUES-DALCROZE, will be held at ST. MARY'S HALL, BRIGHTON, early in AUGUST. Details of Demonstration and Summer School from the Secretary: THE DALCROZE SCHOOL, 23 STORE STREET, LONDON, W.C.1. Tel. Muscum 2294, 10 to 1 and 3 to 5. Some Recent Popular Publications by THE YEAR BOOK PRESS N.B. There is NO PERFORMING FEE on any music pub- lished by us. Full lists and copies of anthems, songs, etc., ON APPROVAL POST FREE. CHURCH MUSIC A64 A63 A62 A61 How Dazzling Fair O.N. Anthem, S.A.T.B. Charles Wood 4d. O be Joyful in the Lord Anthem, S.A.T.B. Charles Wood 4d. Father All Holy Motet, S.A.T.B. Charles Wood 4d. The Way, The Truth, The Life Anthem, Unison ORGAN MUSIC J. B. Johnson 3d. AM31 Concerto in F (Cuckoo and Nightingale), arr. L. J. Blake (Handel) AM30 Andante from Piano Sonata, Op. 28, arr. L. J. Blake (Beethoven) AM29 Overture to "Athalla," arr. C. C. Francis (Handel) 4 UNISON AND PART SONGS 330 329 312 Hence Away, Begone S.A.T.B. Charles Wood A Shepherd's Roundelay Lycidas... 250 By the Red Burn.. 11 3/- 2/- 2- O.N. & S.F. 4d. S.A.T.B. E. L. Bainton. 4d. S.S.A... E. 1. Bainton... 4 S.S.A... Richard Walthew 4d. S.S. .. E. T. Chapman S.S. .. C. H. Kitson .. Unison.. H. G. Ley.. 319 The Trees in England Unison.. Charles Wood .. TEXT BOOKS 325 A Cradle Song 324 A May Song ... 322 The Dandelion 3d. ... 4d. Sd. " 3d. Free Accompaniment of Unison Hymn Singing. Harmonies for 48 Hymns. C. H. Lloyd. 7/6 net. Two Hundred Tunes for Sight Singing, with 12 rounds C. S. Lang. 2/6 net. We also publish Operetias, Cantatas and I'lays. Full lists post free. H. F. W. DEANE & SONS THE YEAR BOOK PRESS LTD 31 MUSEUM STREET, LONDON, W.C.1. 92

January, 1930 A MUSIC JOURNAL WORKING TO MUSIC By W. H. HARPER WORKING to music is not by any means a new idea. The sea chanty comes at once to one's mind, where rhythm and melody were a great help in overcoming heavy work. Everyone has heard the song of the Volga Boatmen, and in southern countries, too, the peasant sings as he works in the fields, under the warm sun and blue sky. In the last generation, little else was considered outside doing the work as quickly as possible at the lowest price. Such phrases as reduction of monotony, time study, and industrial fatigue were practically unknown, and would in all probability have been considered meaningless. To-day, however, progressive business men are taking a broader view on these subjects. They have proved, and are proving every day, that a close and sympathetic study of the human element is not by any means a waste of time; on the contrary the results are satisfactory to everyone concerned. One of the results of the war was the founding of the Institute of Industrial Psychology in 1921. During the short time of its existence, psycho- logical and physiological problems in almost every branch of industry have been dealt with success- fully. During the war, it was a common sight to see a battalion of soldiers coming along the road, tired and weary after a long march; but when the regimental band struck up, they would uncon- sciously step out as if new life had been put into. them. Molten iron is not generally associated with music! Yet during the last few weeks, one of the leading iron foundries in this country, not many miles from Birmingham, has installed a BRANCH NEWS (Continued from page 91) Eastbourne Music Club The Eastbourne Music Club was formed in June, 1929, and has held two sessions of ten weekly meetings at Saffrons Rooms. The member- ship includes the majority of the leading amateur and professional musicians of the town, and many interesting works have been performed during the short period of the Club's operations. At the opening meeting, on June 4th, Brahms' Trio in C minor, Elgar's Sonata for Violin and Piano, and the Beethoven 'Cello Sonata in A major, were performed, the artists being Irene Berry (Piano), J. Hock (of the Catterall Quartet) ('Cellist), and Pierre E. Tas (Violin). Amongst other interesting items performed at the Club are Quintet for Strings in G minor (Mozart), Pianoforte Quintet in F minor (Brahms), The Kreutzer Sonata, Merciless Beauty (Three Rondels for Voice and Strings) 93 gramophone and distributed loud speakers over the factory, so that everyone is literally working to music; the principal reason for putting music in this particular foundry was to create and main- tain a cheerful atmosphere. a At the best of times, the average foundry is gloomy-looking building, which could not be expected, especially on a dull English winter day, to inspire cheerful working conditions. This is where music is helping; for when a man is cheer- ful, he works with more speed and patience. Bright and lively music is played for an hour every morning and afternoon-light opera and army marches are the most popular. It is found that the men quickly tire of modern dance music. It is amusing to see a man pushing a wheel-barrow when a Regimental March is being played he finds it impossible not to walk at quick march time. In modern industrial conditions, with their ever increasing demand for great production and therefore a higher degree of specialisation, we same little operation, day in and day out. This find men and women engaged in performing the very quickly becomes mechanical and, in many cases, deadly monotonous. The worker becomes physically busy, but as soon as he is familiar with his particular operation, he is mentally idle. Under such conditions, one cannot expect melody to come spontaneously as it does to the sailor on the occan or the peasant in the vine yard. We are having to look to such modern inventions as the gramophone and the loud speaker to stimulate and bring about a new spirit of cheerfulness. (Vaughan Williams), Quartet (Fauré), Kaleido- scope for Pianoforte (Goossens), Impressions of a Holiday (Goossens), Sonata in C minor for Viola and Pianoforte (York Bowen), Pianoforte Quintet in A major, op. 81 (Dvořák), Duets for two Pianos by Kirchner, Chopin and Arensky. and Popper's Requiem for three 'Celli and piano- forte. At the last meeting, which was held on December 17th, carols by Mr. Gilbert Alcock were sung by the choir of St. John's Church, where Mr. Alcock is the organist. Several works by Mr. Alcock have been performed at the club, and other local composers whose works have been much appreciated are Miss Connie Pearsons (Violin solos played by Mr. W. J. Read), and Mr. C. Darbyshire Jones, whose Four old English Airs for string quartet were enthusiastically applauded on October 18th. The Club will hold another session of ten weekly meetings at Saffrons Rooms, commencing on Tuesday, February 18th next. M.A.R.

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January, 1930 H.M.V. Company GRAMOPHONE The recent visit to London of Yehundi Menuhin, the wonderful young violinist from. New York, makes his recording specially attrac- tive. He is heard in two pieces-La Capricciosa (Ries) and Allegro (Fiocco), accompanied by Louis Pershinger, who discovered his astounding talent and trained him. Handel's celebrated Largo and Kreisler's Viennese Melody, exquisitely played by Beatrice Harrison, will surely be in great demand by 'cellists. The ever-popular Blue Danube Walts, brilliantly played by Josef Lhevine, is a remark- able achievement. Andrès Segovia, unique among artists on the guitar, brings out the full possibilities of his rarely-heard instrument in Bach's Courante and Torroba's Allegretto from the Sonatina in A. Lovers of Sullivan are sure to be pleased with the selections from The Pirates of Pensance. Conducted by the composer, Eugène Goossens, the New Symphony Orchestra contribute the Ballet Music for Judith, the opera produced at Covent Garden last June. Decca Company A particularly excellent recording is that of Svendsen's Carneval de Paris, conducted by Leslie Heward, who has further to his credit a masterly performance of the Nuptial March from Rimsky-Korsakoff's Coq d'Or, the contrast SOME FORTHCOMING CONCERTS AEOLIAN HALL Jan.Day. Time. Name. 17 Fri, 8-30 Gerald Cooper 22 Wed, 11-0 Federation of Music Clubs 23 Thur. 8-15 Alexander Brachocki 28 Tues. 8-30 Gerald Cooper 29 Wed, 8-15 Alexander Brachocki Feb. 4 Tues. 8-15 Madame Korchinska 8-30 Gerald Cooper 7 Fri. Performance. Chamber Concert. Festival. Pianof'rte Recital. Chamber Concert. Pianof'rte Recital. Chamber Concert.. CENTRAL HALL, WESTMINSTER Jan.Day. Time. Name. II Sat. II-O Children's Concert Feb. I Sat. II-O Children's Concert GROTRIAN Jan.Day. Time, Name. .. Performance. Orch'tral Concert, Orch'tral Concert. HALL 10 Fri. 8-0 Dinh Gilly. 21 Tues. 8-30 Erhart String Orchestra 25 Sat. 3-15 Orrea Pernel and Kathleen Long Performance. Lecture-Concert. A MUSIC JOURNAL between the brilliant brass effects and the more delicate scoring being well brought out. Smetana's Overture to The Bartered Bride, conducted by Julian Clifford, is well worth the cost, if only for the exquisite refinement of the string playing. Columbia Company Choral Music and especially madrigal singing has received hitherto scant recognition in gramo- phone recording in comparison with other branches of music. All the more welcome there- fore is the recent issue of a remarkably good series of records by the St. George's Singers. This sextet, every member of which is an enthusiastic artist as well as a singer, owes its encouragement if not its inception to Dr. E. H. Fellowes, who is foremost among our madri- galian musicologists. Their contribution falls into two groups-(a) three beautiful examples of unaccompanied vocal music of the Tudor Period (Morley's I follow, lo, the footing, East's How merrily we live, and Weelkes' Oh care, thou wilt despatch me), and (b) two discs each containing three Christmas Carols, arranged by Martin Shaw, including The Holly and the Ivy, I saw three ships, We three Kings of Orient be, and The Wassail Song. Pressure on space has compelled the holding over of some of the above reviews for a little time. Further reviews will follow at once. WIGMORE HALL Jan.Day. Time. Name. 7 Tues. 8-30 John Gabalfa 9 Thur. 8-30 Michael Head 13 Mon. 8-15 Sylvia York 14 Tues. 8-30 15 Wed. 8-30 .. Bowen and York Bowen.. Harriet Cohen Spencer Dyke String Quartet George Chavchavadze Isabel Gray 21 Tues. 8-30 Marjorie Edes 17 Fri. 8-30 18 Sat. 3-0 22 Wed. 8-30 "Wednesday Evening Concerts " Moiseiwitsch 23 Thur. 8-15 Michael Zacharewitsch 25 Sat. 3-0 27 Mon. 8-30 May Harrison 29 Wed. 3-0 Andrée Alven 29 Wed. 8-30 Gertrude Peppercorn 30 Thur. 8-30 Lionel Tertis Feb. I Sat. 3-0 3 Mon. 8-30 4 Tues, 8-0 5 Wed. 8-30 Sonata Recital. 95 Moiseiwitsch Shula Doniach Helen McGregor "Wednesday Evening Concerts 6 Thur. 8-30 Victor Beigel Performance. 'Cello Recital. Song Recital. Song and Piano- forte Recital. Pianof'rte Recital. Chamber Concert. Pianof'rte Recital. Ditto. 'Cello Recital. Violin Recital, Pianof'rte Recital. Violin Recital. Violin Recital. Pianof'rte Recital. Viola Recital. Pianof'rte Recital. Pianof'rte Recital. Violin Recital. 4 Lecture-Recital,

A MUSIC JOURNAL NEW The Clarendon Song Books, of which there are to be six, jointly edited by W. G. Whittaker, Herbert Wiseman and J. Wishart, contain Nursery Rhymes, Folk Songs, Rounds and Canons, besides classical and modern songs. They have been com- piled for institutes, social clubs, etc., as well as for schools. Each book consists of about two dozen songs, the piano edition costing 2/6, and the melody book with words, 6d. They should meet a long-felt need where something more than the usual community song is attempted. The brilliant young composer, William Walton, is represented by a piano duet arrangement of Siesta, and the Valse from Façade, arranged for piano solo. Bernard van Dieren's Rondel, Charles I de Valois, Duc d'Orléans, is an extremely attractive song for soprano, of which the accompaniment is peculiarly charming and grateful to play. How long does it play?-A Guide for Con- ductors is the title of an admirable booklet compiled by T. C. York and published by the Oxford University Press with a capital foreword by Hubert J. Foss. Within the space of fifty small pages Mr. York gives the duration in per- formance of standard orchestral works, ranging from Orlando Gibbons to Milhaud and Germaine Tailleferre. The works are classified in sections, including overtures, symphonies, concertos, suites and miscellaneous works for orchestra. This Guide will save conductors and the arrangers of programmes an immense amount of time and anxiety, besides forming a concise and ready catalogue of representative orchestral works, thus conferring an additional boon on all who use it. The price is 1/6. Mention should be made of the CHESTER Edition of Frescobaldi's Six Madrigals for Five Voices. Being in Italian, their sale and perform- ance is likely to be restricted. They form, how- ever, a valuable contribution to our idea of the work of a little-known composer, whose influence on Bach should alone make him worthy of study. The WINTHROP ROGERS Edition of Choral music, under the editorship of Julius Harrison, continues to provide a wide selection of vocal. music. All kinds of choral combination are pro- vided for, the list of composers containing such a variety of names as Scarlatti, Wagner, Mous- sorgsky, Peter Warlock, Alec Rowley, Gerrard Williams, Julius Harrison, Ernest Bullock and others. Messrs. JOSEPH WILLIAMS have published a number of interesting pieces for the piano by Thomas Dunhill, Norman O'Neill, G. O'Connor- Morris, Greville Cooke, Jessie Furze and others. Dunhill's Studies in Rhythmic Difficulties and Norman O'Neill's Four Syncopated Pieces 8 MUSIC 9.0 January, 1930 make a special appeal to players who would improve their rhythm. There is also a piece, Revery, by Sir Alexander Mackenzie, dedicated to Myra Hess, which shows the composer in romantic mood. This piece is by no means easy to play. Notable among new choral works in the CURWEN Edition is a setting for Chorus of mixed voices and Orchestra of La Belle Dame Sans Merci, by Armstrong Gibbs. This work should have instant success in many choral societies, for despite its modern tone it is by no means difficult to sing. The middle section is written for male voices divided into three parts, but it is optional whether tenors or basses divide. Owing to the dearth of men choristers this is a sound and practical provision. In strong contrast to the aforementioned is Rutland Boughton's Child Earth, a cycle of Choral Songs for unaccompanied mixed voices. This work is contrapuntally more complex and more difficult than the work by Gibbs; moreover it has not the support of an orchestra. But choirs with a reputation for creative expression allied to technical skill will gain inspiration from this fine example of modern British choralism. Rut- land Boughton is also responsible for a choral setting for unaccompanied mixed voices of Burglar Bill, the verses by F. Anstey, who pub- lished them in Punch. This is a splendid bit of musical realism; any choir that tackles it will have hard work but ever-varied enjoyment. A PROTEST THE Faculty of Arts, at a meeting of com- posers, held on December 10th, 1929, to discuss the Music Copyright Bill, passed the following resolution:- That this meeting of composers regards the provisions of the new Musical Copyright Bill with indignation and dismay. The passing of this Bill would inflict a deplor- able injustice upon the composer, and would deal a serious blow to the future of music in this country. In common with the author (dramatic and otherwise), the painter, and the members of all other professions, the composer is morally and legally entitled to freedom of contract in the disposal of his work. This Bill strikes directly and ruthlessly at that right; and while depriving the composer of the protection of his full copyright in foreign countries, would conserve it to foreign music per- formed or sold in this country. This meeting therefore begs that the Bill shall not be accorded the support of His Majesty's overnment. 30 JAN